Alessandro Allori - Portrait of a Florentine noblewoman, bust-length

Portrait of an unknown woman

label QS:Lit,"Ritratto di donna sconosciuta"

label QS:Lfr,"Portrait d'une femme inconnue"

label QS:Lpl,"Portret nieznanej kobiety"

label QS:Lnl,"Portret van een onbekende vrouw"

label QS:Lru,"Портрет неизвестной женщины"

label QS:Lde,"Porträt einer unbekannten Frau"

label QS:Lpt,"Retrato de uma mulher desconhecida"

label QS:Len,"Portrait of an unknown woman"

label QS:Les,"Retrato de una mujer desconocida"

label QS:Lhu,"Ismeretlen nő portréja", formerly thought to be Eleanor of Toledo (1522-1562)

Catalogue Note

This refined portrait of a member of the Florentine patriciate was painted by Alessandro Allori and his workshop probably during the 1550s, when this style of coiffure and dress was in vogue. The elegant sitter wears a red velvet dress over a white shift ornamented with straps of gold filigree. The pearl necklace and complementary headdress served as tangible symbols of her wealth and status.

The painting is likely an adaptation of a three-quarter-length, seated portrait of the sitter, one version of which is in Paris (Musée du Louvre, inv. no. MNR 800) while another is untraced since World War II (previously Kyiv, Nationalmuseum, inv. no. 6057). The original, erroneously identified as depicting Eleanora di Toledo in the past, may have been conceived as a pendant to a portrait depicting the sitter's husband.

Among those artists working closely with Allori at that time was Giovanni Maria Butteri (Florence circa 1540-1606 or 1608), who may have participated in the execution of this refined portrait. Like Allori, Butteri trained under Agnolo Bronzino, and the two younger painters remained associates and collaborators throughout their careers. The hard edges of the sitter's features, as well as the geometric rendering of her visage, are hallmarks of Butteri's style.

We are grateful to Adriana Concin for her assistance cataloguing this lot."

Gemälde Ölporträts von Frauen aus dem 16. Jahrhundert in Brustlänge Porträtgemälde von nicht identifizierten Frauen aus dem 16. Jahrhundert Porträtgemälde von Frauen aus dem 16. Jahrhundert mit mutmaßlicher Dargestellter Porträtgemälde aus dem 16. Jahrhundert von Frauen, Ort und Jahr fehlen alessandro allori weibliche Porträtgemälde von Alessandro Allori Brustlänge Porträt

1550

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